• hikaru755OP
    3·
    2 months ago

    What do you mean by worst case?

    As you said these sites are likely to overrepresent waitlisted people. As a fellow waitlisted person, I’m using them to get an idea of how “bad” the situation is, i.e. to curb my expectations about moving to the reservation list at some point. Waitlisted people being overrepresented will make the situation look worse than it is, meaning I’m more likely to be positively surprised than negatively.

    • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 month ago

      How do you know that waitlist people are overrepresented? The problem with sampling biases is that you don‘t how the estimate is affected.

      • hikaru755OP
        1·
        1 month ago

        I only stumbled over these sites after I got put on the waitlist, if I had gotten on the reservation list I probably wouldn’t have looked around as much. Assuming I’m not special, that would mean there’s some bias towards waitlisted people. But I might be wrong about that, sure